Although it is the smallest of Kazimierzs surviving Synagogues, the
Remuh Synagogue is also the busiest. A subtle, unprepossessing building dating
to 1558 was established to support a small community. Previously a make shift
Synagogue was used from the first founding in 1533.

It is named for the famed Rabbi Moses Isserles Auerbach who is known as Remuh.
His tomb in the adjacent cemetery still attracts Jewish pilgrims. The cemetery
became the most important in Kazimierz and was the site of the burial of
most of the great and good of Krakóws Jewish Community.

All this continued until the Nazis arrived and decimated that Community.
The Synagogue and Cemetery were both smashed to pieces. Strangely it was
the cemetery that was renovated first (between 1956 and 1960) and the Synagogue
followed between 1958 and 1968.

The Cemetery has been restored as well as possible. The ruined gravestones
which could not be re-erected have been set into the wall as a memorial to
the lost of the Kazimierz Community.